faire

vt

(=fabriquer)to makefaire un filmto make a moviefaire du painto make breadfaire un gâteauto make a cakefaire une offreto make an offerfaire du bruitto make a noiseIls font trop de bruit.They're making too much noise.

(=effectuer)to doQue faites-vous?What are you doing?Que faites-vous dans la vie?What do you do?Que faire?What can be done about it?Qu'allons-nous faire?What are we going to do?faire la lessiveto do the washingfaire le ménageto do the houseworkfaire la vaisselleto do the dishes, to do the washing up

(durée)
ça fait 2 ans qu'il est partiit's 2 years since he leftça fait 2 ans qu'il y esthe's been there for 2 yearsça fait trois ans qu'ils habitent à Paristhey've lived in Paris for three years, they've been living in Paris for three years

(=être d'usage)cela se fait beaucoupit's done a lot, people do it a lotcela ne se fait pasit's not done

[vin, fromage]to mature

vpr/impers
(=être possible)comment se fait-il que ...?how is it that ...?comment se faisait-il que ...?how was it that ...?il peut se faire que nous utilisions ...it's possible that we could use ..., we might use ...

The elections act formerly imposed limits on third parties and candidates. Those of course had been thrown out by a court in Alberta and had not been appealed. The result of this was that in the last election campaign those who wanted to vote for a member of this House had spending limits in terms of what they could do to promote...

Obviously community views are going to be important in any decision. The opposition seems to brush that away, as if that is not important. Well, it is important, and this bill is important to protect Canadians. Why is the member opposed to community views?

These nine individuals and many other supporters came to oppose the inexplicable decision of the government to close down prison farms, a win-win-win situation for Canadians that provides valuable rehabilitation for prisoners as well as marketable skills...

With respect to not re-arguing or reopening the case, the Leader of the Opposition in particular, in his ever haughty and helpful way, went on to lecture that somehow I and others should have known that the Supreme Court case itself was, to use his language and the...

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